Issue 3 (56)
| “THERE WAS NOTHING SPECIAL ”: PETROGRAD OF 1917 IN THE DIARY OF A MILITARY CENSOR V. V. SUKHANIN | |||
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| Year | 2017 | Number | 3 (56) |
| Pages | 41-51 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 94 (47) "1917" | BBK | 63.3 (2) 535 |
| Authors | Weber Mikhail I. Surzhikova Natalya V. |
Topic | 1917 |
| Summary | The diary of a military censor, Major-General V. V. Sukhanin, caught by revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, is published for the first time. This source, stored in the funds of State Archive of Russian Federation (GARF), captures typical signs of revolutionary everyday life. But the author mentioned only casually Kornilov mutiny, shooting in the streets, sailors of Kronstadt, requiems for dead revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries, rallies and processions of excited crowd, elections to Constituent Assembly — all these and other signs of Russia in 1917. The diary of V. V. Sukhanin is really a personal diary, combining features of a diary-chronicle and notes for memory. The author’s close attention to everyday worries characterizes him as a man who avoided publicity and valued his private life. At the same time, not wanting to understand and accept significance of the changes taking place in Russian society, the author of diary involuntarily recorded that the changes touched everyone and everything, not excluding his own measured life. Such way of rationalizing the revolutionary contemporary by contemporaries actualizes problem of multiply variants of storytelling the past. The variants formed depending on life experience and life position of one or another author. Example of V. V. Sukhanin, an elderly retired army officer, who was not ready to live in a new (post)revolutionary Russia, explains in many respects why after 1917 he as so many of his compatriots preferred to leave Russia and emigrate. | ||
| Keywords | Russia in 1917, revolution, Petrograd, ego-documents, diary, everyday life, private life | ||
| References |
Autobiographical Practices in Russia = Autobiographische Praktiken in Russland. Göttingen, 2004. |
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